Allowing Quotes
648 Allowing quotes by 524 unique authors
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A rationalist is simply someone for whom it is more important to learn than to be proved right; someone who is willing to learn from…
— Karl Popper
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Part a of scene from 'Bitterblue' between Madlen (Bitterblue's medicine woman) and Bitterblue: Madlen came to sit beside her [Bitterblue] on the bed. "Lady Queen,"…
— Kristin Cashore
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My calculations - allowing for a 12 percent margin of error, based on the radius of the corresponding confidence interval and the surgeon general's warning…
— Darynda Jones
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It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all. We should long ago have…
— Andrei Tarkovsky
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Dictators are not in the business of allowing elections that could remove them from their thrones.
— Gene Sharp
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The story of human intimacy is one of constantly allowing ourselves to see those we love most deeply in a new, more fractured light. Look…
— Cheryl Strayed
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Knowing what you need doesn't always mean you know how to get it, though. I'd spent a long time hiding in my cave. No matter…
— Megan Hart
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[...] allowing only ordinary ability and opportunity, we may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! Not transient…
— Frederick Douglass
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I think allowing yourself to cry on the bathroom floor is FEARLESS.
— Taylor Swift
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-- and it occurred to me that people who don't talk about themselves are limiting their own potential. They think they're guarding themselves for some…
— Chuck Klosterman
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There is something hugely civilised about allowing long pauses in a conversation. Very few people can stand that kind of silence.
— James Robertson
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And at some point, the struggle becomes too much-too tiring-and you consider letting go. Allowing tragedy... or whatever... to happen.
— Jay Asher
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Introverts need to trust their gut and share their ideas as powerfully as they can. This does not mean aping extroverts; ideas can be shared…
— Susan Cain
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I just let the pain take over, allowing it to numb the pain of being left behind.
— Jessica Sorensen
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The test of faith is whether I can make space for difference. Can I recognize God's image in someone who is not in my image,…
— Jonathan Sacks
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Colinialism hardly ever exploits the whole of a country. It contents itself with bringing to light the natrual resources, which it extracts, and exports to…
— Frantz Fanon
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There was I, devouring books and yet allowing a man who had never read a book to walk me home for a bit of harmless…
— Edna O'Brien
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There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.
— Alain de Botton
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Allowing someone else to make us happy will make them happy too.
— Paulo Coelho
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To let go means to give up coercing, resisting, or struggling, in exchange for something more powerful and wholesome which comes out of allowing things…
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
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Authentic inspiration endows individuals with mental or spiritual energy which they are then able to transform into positive action. It can make all the difference…
— Aberjhani
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Following your heart means allowing the possibility of finding true love to be stronger than the fear of rejection.
— Susane Colasanti
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The Republican party is the party of nostalgia. It seeks to return America to a simpler, more innocent and moral past that never actually existed.…
— Jon Stewart
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Also, in my bedroom, nobody minded if I kept the hall door half-open, allowing in enough light that I was not scared of the dark,…
— Neil Gaiman
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Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities. It calls for taking special care that all groups have a…
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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